8 Bad Habits that Crush Your Creativity And Stifle Your Success
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John Lennon’s To-Do List!
John Lennon’s to-do list varied from meeting guys with HBO, to buying marmalade, to errands around the house.
Even rockstars get stuff done! We wonder how he recorded his accomplishments.
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“iDoneThis keeps me honest.” – Our Interview of Daniel Pink
Here at iDoneThis, we are huge fans of Daniel Pink, author of #1 New York Times bestseller, Drive. We admire his thought leadership on the changing world of work and are so excited that he records his daily accomplishments with iDoneThis. Below, we interviewed Dan on the important stuff – why he does what he does and how he gets stuff done.
30 Days of Accomplishments
Try small, sustainable changes for 30 days to make new habits stick. What do you want to accomplish in the next 30 days?
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New Year’s Habits
We probably didn’t need scientists to actually come up with a figure (80% failure rate!) to know that New Year’s resolutions don’t stick around. The key to change is not making some grand declaration of an ideal, that this is the year you’re going to lose x number of pounds, stop procrastinating, find Princess Charming, or any of these popular resolutions. Resolutions are often too abstract or unrealistic that they’re almost easy to ignore.
Instead, build a habit! Forming habits slowly can be much more effective. You can start with baby steps, like drinking water instead of soda, attaining small successes and rewards that will build up until voila, habit! The conscious creation of a habit also allows you to experiment to see what works best for you without feeling like you’ve failed the overall intention of, say, daily exercise if you find that running that extra quarter mile just isn’t for you.
How Do You Want To Be Remembered?
It’s almost 2012. How do you want to be remembered? What “Dones” will it take to accomplish that?
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You Don’t Need An Army When You Have Seal Team 6
You Don’t Need An Army When You Have Seal Team 6
Sometimes, you can get more done with less.
Notes for Success
So much to do —> So much done.
Painless Timekeeping for Lawyers
For lawyers who shudder at the very mention of the word “billable”, time keeping ranges the negative spectrum from the worst chore to the bane of lawyerly existence. The best way to keep track of your time is contemporaneous entries for accuracy’s sake, but that’s just not how a lot of people work. Timekeeping gets in the way, breaking any work flow mojo. It just isn’t a priority given the “actual” work to be done, and it’s an unnatural task for human beings who are more human than robot.
Many lawyers resort to guesstimation or have to don their Sherlock caps to search for clues among their notes, papers, and e-mails to reconstruct their days. This method actually takes more time and results in “time leaks,” where time flies away never to be recaptured. The time spent on time keeping itself is lost to the land of unbillable.